Bawdy Quotes

#1. The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, sold consciences, bought women, and rampant drunkenness.

Emile Zola

#2. My faith has cost me a lot of money. Because I do creative roles, and I guess someone could think of me as, I could play bawdy, I could play rough around the edges. And so they think, 'Oh, she'll do this. It'll be so funny.' And I'm like, 'I'm not doing that.'

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

#3. I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.

Betty White

#4. Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.

Catherine Hardwicke

#5. We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

Karen Maitland

#6. 'Performance' gave me doubts about my way of life. Before that, I had been completely involved in the more bawdy side of the film business. But after that, everything changed.

James Fox

#7. If we cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq,
If the markets hurt your Mama, bomb Iraq,
If the terrorists are Saudi And the bank takes back your Audi And the TV shows are bawdy, bomb Iraq . . .

Garrett Leigh

#8. The cold November sun sent weak rays onto the floor of the old house. The floor beneath snickered, trying hard to hold back snaps of bawdy laughter. The temperature dropped with ease.

J. Thorn

#9. Bawdy in thoughts, precise in words,
Ill-natured though a whore,
Her belly is a bag of turds,
And her cunt a common shore.

John Wilmot

#10. Oh, God. She'd now have to invent a bawdy verse on the spot. She'd never had to improvise so much in her entire life as she had in the last five minutes. Improvise being another word for lie, of course.

Julie Anne Long

#11. The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

Jon Favreau

#12. Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.

Betty White

#13. The danger of sending your children to college was that they would be contaminated by subversive forces, bad influences and bawdy women.
Rolled with laughter. Parent's fear, college student's desire.

Jean Thompson

#14. I've always had a bawdy sense of humor. My father was a traveling salesman and he would bring jokes home. He would say, "Honey, you can take this one to school, but you can't take that one to school."

Betty White

#15. If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

Harry S. Truman

#16. He hymns the rotten queen with saffron hair
Who has saltier aphrodisiacs
Than virgins' tears. That bawdy queen of death,
Her wormy couriers are at his bones.
Still he hymns juice of her, hot nectarine.

Sylvia Plath

#17. Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.

Steven Pinker

#18. The opera ... is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

H.L. Mencken

#19. She knew far too much about him. She knew everything. Like how the royal ladies-in-waiting swapped bawdy jokes about the sad size of the duke's scepter.

Lauren Kate

#20. (I remember with gratitude the banner carried by some very old and bawdy women who led the parade while I was a student: hardly a man is now alive, who remembers the girls of '95.)

Gloria Steinem

#21. One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.

Julie Taymor

#22. Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio's stories, written from the underbelly of the American Dream, present one brilliant portrait after another.

Sabina Murray

#23. This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as non-traditional gramar, split infinitives, and the odd wank.

Christopher Moore

#24. The river runs wide and passive in sunlit stretches, then fast and bawdy with whitewater rapids.

Jennifer Egan

#25. Having Aelin help him the first time had been awkward enough that he couldn't even go until she started singing a bawdy tune at the top of her lungs and turned on the sink faucet, all the while helping him stand over the toilet.

Sarah J. Maas

#26. If she tried anything, she would be sorry. Adam was mine. She had thrown him away, thrown Jesse away - and I had snatched them up. Finders keepers.

Patricia Briggs

#27. After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#28. I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

Kathleen Hanna

#29. Our currency is what we are able to make.

Robert Genn

#30. The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!

Larry Williams

#31. In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.

Chris Guillebeau

#32. These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...

Angela Carter

#33. our tomorrow is
shaped by the choices we make today, consciously or unconsciously

Derric Yuh Ndim

#34. Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

Boris Johnson

#35. Mistakes don't have to define us. They're how we learn and grow. They show us who and what we don't want to be. It's why they're mistakes.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#36. In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard's only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history.

George Vecsey

#37. In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.

Paulo Coelho

#38. I thought you liked suffering and death. I mean ... you always look like suffering and death.

Richie Tankersley Cusick

#39. I was appraising . . . not eye fooking.

Paul Allor

#40. The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

Thomas Sowell